Turkey hunter Matt Donner, of Marcellus, wrote: "Thought you might be interested in what I found the first morning I hunted turkeys. I found a dead coyote hanging in a tree..... weird right?

"My first thought was somebody had set a trap and forgot about it, which would not have happened here because I trap this spot. So I looked closer and found out what happened. He had got his foot stuck in the tree. He must have been climbing the tree for some reason.

"Who really know what goes through a coyote's head sometimes?"

2). Photos of a mysterious deepwater fish went viral on social media last week after the strange looking fish washed up along the North Carolina coast on Monday.

The fish, believed to be a lancetfish, washed onto the shore along Nags Head, along the Outer Banks, just south of Jennette's Pier. The photos were taken by Leif Rasmussen from Manteo, according to CBS Affiliate WBTV.

Very little is known about the lancetfish's biology, but they are known to be in all of the oceans -- except the polar seas.

4). It's the circle of life. For one animal to live, another must die. It's not always a pretty sight.

Warning: The video below, published by Barcroft TV on YouTube, is of a lion catching and killing an antelope in mid-air is eye-opening. It may be upsetting to some viewers.

5). Ending on a lighter note, the annual spring migration of monarch butterflies is one of the great wonders and mysteries of nature.

Each year, those in our area and east of the Rocky Mountains fly south to the forests high in the mountains of Mexico - a trip of up to 3,000 miles.

Amy Hargraves of Syracuse gets a Monarch Butterfly to land on her head at the SkyRiver Butterflies exhibit in the Horticulture Building at the 2012 New York State Fair.
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"Amazingly, they fly in masses to the same winter roosts, often to the exact same trees. Their migration is more the type we expect from birds or whales. However, unlike birds and whales, individuals only make the round-trip once. (Several generations are produced and die each summer.) It is their children's grandchildren that return south the following fall," according to monarchwatch.org.

"The unsolved mystery is how monarchs find the overwintering sites each year. Somehow they know their way, even though the butterflies returning to Mexico or California each fall are the great-great-grandchildren of the butterflies that left the previous spring. No one knows exactly how their homing system works; it is another of the many unanswered questions in the butterfly world," the website said.